March 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 809 – Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
• 1284 – King Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
• 1381 – Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
• 1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic (b. 1340)
• 1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
• 1558 – Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
• 1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
• 1575 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
• 1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
• 1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
• 1773 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
• 1776 – John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
• 1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
• 1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
• 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
• 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 – Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
• 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
• 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
• 1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
• 1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
• 1926 – Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese nationalist (b. 1872)
• 1940 – Édouard Branly, French inventor and physicist (b. 1844)
• 1944 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (b. 1903)
• 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German athlete (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
• 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
• 1953 – Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
• 1962 – Jean Goldkette, Greek jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
• 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
• 1976 – Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
• 1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
• 1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
• 1991 – John Kerr, Australian governor-general (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (b. 1905)
• 1993 – John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
• 1997 – Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
• 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
• 1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Pierlucio Tinazzi, Italian security guard (b. 1962)
• 2001 – Muriel Young, English TV personality (b. 1928)
• 2002 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (b. 1955)
• 2008 – Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2009 – George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Johnny Maestro, American singer (Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge) (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (b. 1950)